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New York Times and USA Today bestselling author L. P. DOVER is a southern belle living in North Carolina with her husband and two beautiful girls. Before she began her literary journey, she worked in periodontics, enjoying the wonderment of dental surgeries.
She loves to write, but she also loves to play tennis, go on mountain hikes and white-water rafting, and has a passion for singing. Her two youngest fans expect a concert each and every night before bedtime, usually Christmas carols.
Dover has written more than twenty novels, including her Forever Fae series, the Second Chances series, the Gloves Off series, the Armed & Dangerous series, the Royal Shifters series, and her stand-alone novel, Love, Lies, and Deception. Her favorite genre to read and write is romantic suspense, but if she got to choose a setting in which to live, it would be with her faeries in the Land of the Fae.
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The Editor’s Corner
April is a promise of spring, and Loveswept romance is here to warm things up.
L. P. Dover continues her edgy, emotionally gripping Second Chances series with the story of a beautiful widow who can’t resist a chiseled NFL player in Catching Summer. The Society of Gentlemen series from K. J. Charles continues with the sizzling A Gentleman’s Position. For a new series, ladies, meet Micah, a man who takes what he wants—until he meets the one woman he needs in Stacey Kennedy’s Bound Beneath His Pain. An epic love affair steals the show in Stina Lindenblatt’s This One Moment. Annie Rains continues her small-town Hero’s Welcome series with a cowboy turned Marine in Welcome Home, Cowboy. Gillian Archer is hot on the trend of MC romance, introducing her True Brothers series with Ruthless. And MC Sons of Odin returns with Violetta Rand’s irresistible novel about a sexy-as-sin biker who tempts a good girl to go bad, Possession.
Off the Hook from USA Today–bestselling author Laura Drewry is the first in her Fishing for Trouble series featuring three unforgettable brothers—each of whom is a great catch. Then the swoon-worthy McKinney Brothers series from New York Times–bestselling author Claudia Connor continues with J.T. in Worth It All. USA Today–bestselling author Alexis Morgan kicks off her new Sergeant Joe’s Boys series with Always for You: Jack, where a foster son learns about love and life in record time. And the new Fireside series tells a story of an old love reunited in His to Love from new Loveswept author Stacey Lynn. USA Today–bestselling writing duo M. J. Fields and Chelsea Camaron are back with the Caldwell brothers in Jagger, which is not only full of swagger and sensuality, but also packs an emotional punch, as the last bachelor standing fights for a woman who’s worth every ounce of trouble. And yet another Aces Hockey romance from Kelly Jamieson releases this month featuring pro hockey hunk Duncan in Icing. There’s also something naughty for you from New York Times–bestselling author Jen McLaughlin in Lust Is the Thorn, where a soon-to-be-ordained priest has to decide who he loves more. Then prepare yourself for razor-sharp suspense from New York Times–bestselling author Patricia Rosemoor with His Deception. Two words for you: secret bodyguard. And for fans of the hit TV show Empire, Lisa Marie Perry’s Sin for Me kicks off the sizzling Devil’s Music series.
Friend Loveswept and let the romance begin!
Until next month—Happy Romance!
Gina Wachtel
Associate Publisher
Read on for an excerpt from
Defending Hayden
A Second Chances Novel
by L. P. Dover
Available from Loveswept
Prologue
Derek
The night air was cool, the wind whipping by us as we rode home in Brianna’s convertible. The top was down and we’d just left a party at the Second Street Bar downtown. Evan was in the back seat laughing and talking to Bri while I watched on in amusement. How could I have gotten so lucky?
“I told you, it’s mine and Luke’s secret,” she said to Evan. “I just told him what I would want if I was in Lara’s place. Just whatever happens, don’t tell her it was my idea.”
Evan bellowed out a laugh. “Oh, hell.”
“Exactly,” Brianna laughed.
Lara wasn’t going to take that jackass back. Even I wasn’t stupid enough to sleep with a girl and dismiss her for three months, then expect her to stick around. Luke might as well get the fuck over it and move on.
For the longest time, we had been alone on the dark country road, but now a set of lights caught up to us from behind. Brianna tilted her mirror to get the lights out of her eyes. “That’s weird.”
I glanced over my shoulder. “What the hell is this guy doing?” The truck sped up way too fast, getting closer by the second.
“Brianna, speed up,” Evan yelled. She slammed on the gas, but the person behind us kept pursuing.
“What the fuck?” I hissed, flipping the person off.